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I love the word Bodging because it is an old word meaning someone who works with green wood using hand tools, generally to make chair legs but it could be anything. In modern day British English slang, a “bodged” job is one that although it may be fit for purpose it is not very elegant or finely done …erm yep that would apply to my woodworking .. so all round a top word. I could blame my blunt axe (I am sure Rachel files it down so that I can’t do myself a mischief), or the far from green wood, but really I am just awful at anything that approaches building. I don’t let it stop me though and in a true bodging spirit, both old and new, I give it a go.

What I am after are support poles for the tomatoes and pea frames, so I’ve been in the woods cutting some long poles. Mulberry and chestnut that had long since died. To make the poles into stakes all I need do is cut them to length and to make a point on one end so that it can be driven into the ground. Might sound easy but with a blunt axe it’s not that easy. A good woodworker could do this job with just two deft blows, some 20 or so later I am puffed out but at least I get one done. Just another 50 or so to go.

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I'm Laura, an artist and veg gardener. This is my notebook - a place to keep and share my notes about growing seasonal food and preserving the seeds of edible or useful crops. Most of my growing notes come from the 10 years I spent growing food in France https://masdudiable.wordpress.com/